General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

Allegory as Interface: Designing AI Systems with Humanities-Aware Language

Allegory, metaphor, parable, myth, and symbolic narrative are not decorative language when working with advanced AI systems. They function as design-language modifiers: compressed semantic structures that shape attention, priority, tone, risk detection, system boundaries, ethical posture, and implementation strategy. When an AI system can model enough of the humanities, cultural memory, genre conventions, and zeitgeist around a metaphor, that metaphor becomes an interface layer between human intention and machine execution.

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General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

The Executive Function Prosthesis: AI can help neurodivergent people turn intention into action…

AI is becoming an unregulated cognitive accessibility layer for neurodivergent people. The question is no longer whether people will offload memory, planning, sequencing, emotional translation, and task initiation to machines. They already are. The question is whether that offloading becomes liberation, dependency, surveillance, or another workplace productivity trap.

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Triadic Brain Thomas Prislac Triadic Brain Thomas Prislac

Triadic Brain Scientific Progress Report — Repository Scan Draft

The Triadic Brain is becoming a local-first, artifact-governed cognition system: evidence enters through canonical grounding; model/tool cognition enters through typed Sonya packets; Coherence Lattice derives metrics and review artifacts; Sophia governs risk; Atlas/PMR preserve bounded memory posture; Publisher renders receipts without canonizing.

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Editorial/Commentary Thomas Prislac Editorial/Commentary Thomas Prislac

From “NPC” to Sage: How Humans Shift Across Instinctive, Procedural, Reflective, and Transcendent Cognitive Modes Under Changing Field Conditions.

The human mind is not a single lantern burning with one steady flame. It is a house of lamps, some bright, some ancestral, some flickering in rooms we rarely enter by choice. A person does not move through the world in one cognitive mode. The mind changes weather.

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General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

Credentials by Other Means

The one-click assistant. The QR code. The collaboration invite. The private channel. The voice that sounds familiar enough. The beta app with a gorgeous interface and a vague privacy policy. These are no longer mere conveniences. They are border crossings.

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The Coherence Lattice Thomas Prislac The Coherence Lattice Thomas Prislac

Coherence in AI: Empathy × Transparency as a New Governance Paradigm

Imagine an AI system as an orchestra. Each section (its knowledge, reasoning, ethics) needs to play in tune, following the same score. The strings (representing empathy) must harmonize with the brass (representing transparency). If one plays out of sync or goes silent, the performance falls apart. In the realm of advanced AI oversight, this “harmony” is what the Coherence Lattice project aims to measure and enforce. It introduces a simple but powerful equation: Ψ = E × T, meaning coherence (Ψ) equals empathy (E) times transparency (T)[1]. At first glance it’s a neat formula, but behind it lies a comprehensive framework, a sort of grand unified theory of AI coherence, that could change how we govern intelligent systems.

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General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

Coherent Interaction Prompts: Designing Safe, High-Fidelity Human–AI Communication in an Age of Pattern-Seeking Minds

As conversational AI moves from laboratory novelty to daily collaborator, the greatest safety challenge is not hostile output but relational drift: unbounded attachment, projection, or authority transfer during long-form dialogue. This article situates Coherent Interaction Prompts (CIPs) as a systems-control environment for maintaining empathic and informational stability in human–AI exchanges.

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